Compassionately Quotes

#1. As a leader, you have the choice to determine what you are going to do and how you are going to engage others. You can decide to act compassionately regardless of what the weather is - whether it is cloudy or sunny - or whether things are inspirational or not.

Sakyong Mipham

#2. There's often a reason why people and dogs bite. It's about self-protection. If we respect what we may not know about the suffering of others and look at them compassionately, we open the door that can lead to understanding.

Jennifer Skiff

#3. The early doctrines of the church, even doctrines like Trinity and Incarnation were originally also calls for action, calls for selflessness, calls for compassion, and unless you live that out compassionately, selflessly, you didn't understand what the doctrine was saying.

Karen Armstrong

#4. The fierce ambitions of Carver Dana Andrews, son of a Baptist preacher, might well have been imagined by Horatio Alger, Jr.
or Samuel Goldwyn
but not the hidden costs behind those achievements. Carl Rollyson compassionately captures the man behind the movie star.

Marion Meade

#5. Talk passionately and act compassionately. The only thing you can do in your life to win the world is to be a kind speaker and a kind listener. That's what makes the humankind. Kind listening and kind speaking. Passionately talk and compassionately act.

Harbhajan Singh Yogi

#6. The best way to fire somebody is to compassionately fire them.

Nick Woodman

#7. If you want to know who we are, who America is, how we respond to evil-that's it: selflessly, compassionately, unafraid.

Barack Obama

#8. By acting compassionately, by helping to restore justice and to encourage peace, we are acknowledging that we are all part of one another.

Ram Dass

#9. The best parenting strives to educate children in how to live
enthusiastically, compassionately, without greed, striving for a better world.

David R. Wommack

#10. It seems like, if you really knew the God who understands the physics of our existence, you would operate a little more cautiously, a little more compassionately, a little less like you are the center of the universe.

Donald Miller

#11. Being listened to and being heard is an experience that doesn't happen terribly often. To listen compassionately or nonjudgmentally to another person - not to get too heavy about it - but I once heard somebody say that was a form of real prayer.

Gabriel Byrne

#12. Root out the violence in your life, and learn to live compassionately and mindfully. Seek peace. When you have peace within, real peace with others is possible.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#13. Life is suffering. Life is not resistance to suffering. The point of life is to suffer. This is why we're here: We're here to suffer. I believe in a higher power that compassionately allows suffering for us as a race, to grow and mature.

Rainn Wilson

#14. (Matthew 22:37, 39) My purpose is to love God completely, love self correctly, and love others compassionately.

Kenneth D. Boa

#15. One of the tasks of true friendship is to listen compassionately and creatively to the hidden silences. Often secrets are not revealed in words, they lie concealed in the silence between the words or in the depth of what is unsayable between two people.

John O'Donohue

#16. They approach me in a half-hesitant sort of way, eye me curiously or compassionately, and then, instead of saying directly, How does it feel to be a problem? they say, I know an excellent colored man in my town; or, I fought at Mechanicsville; or, Do not these Southern outrages make your blood boil?

W.E.B. Du Bois

#17. If you really care about animals, then stop trying to figure out how to exploit them 'compassionately'. Just stop exploiting them.

Gary L. Francione

#18. Leaders have the right to expect that others will compassionately recognize them.

William A. Adams

#19. The art of peaceful living comes down to living compassionately & wisely.

Allan Lokos

#20. It may take practice to think more positively and more compassionately, but just as you must train a puppy to behave the way you want it to, you must train your mind to behave itself. Otherwise, like the puppy, your mind will just make a lot of messes.

Tom Barrett

#21. She would not be robbed of her ability to support herself, to do good work in the world, justly, compassionately.

Marge Piercy

#22. Patience graciously, compassionately and with understanding, judges the faults of others without unjust criticism.

Billy Graham

#23. We invite compassion into our lives when we act compassionately toward ourselves and others, and we feel connected in our lives when we reach out and connect.

Brene Brown

#24. Philosophy is fundamentally about how you come to terms with living your life and trying to do it in a wise manner, and, for me, that means decently and compassionately and courageously and so forth.

Cornel West

#25. There is no verb for compassion, but you have an adverb for compassion. That's interesting to me. You act compassionately. But then, how to act compassionately if you don't have compassion? That is where you fake. You fake it and make it. This is the mantra of the United States of America.

Dayananda Saraswati

#26. We unwittingly project onto God our own attitudes and feelings toward ourselves ... But we cannot assume that He feels about us the way we feel about ourselves
unless we love ourselves compassionately, intensely, and freely.

Brennan Manning

#27. When we take into consideration the needs of both ourselves and others, we communicate honestly, compassionately and effectively.

Aletheia Luna

#28. Look at her, the poor woman," Milo said compassionately, as he sealed her mouth with duct tape. "We need to deprogram her.

Chuck Palahniuk

#29. The point is to be compassionately, not cruelly, honest. Tell the person what you have heard that worries you. Allow him to respond. You may be surprised at how much sense his answers make.

Nancy O'Meara

#30. Love is omni-inclusive, progressively exquisite, understanding and compassionately attuned to other than self.

R. Buckminster Fuller

#31. To meditate is to discover new possibilities, to awaken the capacities of us has to live more wisely, more lovingly, more compassionately, and more fully.

Jack Kornfield

#32. I wish the hearts of human beings pumped with kind desires.
I wish every gaze landed on the eyes of others compassionately.
I wish hatred, envy, and vengeance were alien concepts to humankind.
I wish the precious worth of every soul was universally understood.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#33. To be human, at the most profound level, is to encounter honestly the inescapable circumstances that constrain us, yet muster the courage to struggle compassionately for our own unique individualities and for more democratic and free societies.

Cornel West

#34. Exercise the muscles that compassionately open the heart.
In your writing and your life.

Dinty W. Moore

#35. Seven Ways to Live Your Life:
Love unconditionally
Forgive kindly
Live profoundly
Give joyfully
Think carefully
Hug compassionately
Inspire passionately

Debasish Mridha

#36. COKANE [looking compassionately at him] Ah, my dear fellow, the love of money is the root of all evil.
LICKCHEESE. Yes, sir; and we'd all like to have the tree growing in our garden.

George Bernard Shaw

#37. Give selflessly, love unconditionally,
care compassionately.

Debasish Mridha

#38. Some people use NVC to respond compassionately to themselves, some to create greater depth in their personal relationships, and still others to build effective relationships at work or in the political arena. Worldwide, NVC is used to mediate disputes and conflicts at all levels.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#39. And he wanted more than anything else, deeply and compassionately, to be of help; and he could be of help in this age, and was of help, because artist and philosopher as well as theologian, he cared for culture as well as for Christ.6

Paul Tillich

#40. It's often difficult for us to act compassionately, but sacred art eases the difficulty by ennobling us.

Huston Smith

#41. Whenever a natural disaster occurs, it is always the Red Cross that responds quickly and compassionately. I am honored to lend my voice to their cause, and thrilled to serve on the Celebrity Cabinet for 2010.

Reba McEntire

#42. He true test of spirituality [is] in the freedom to live among people compassionately ... Prayer frees us to be controlled by God.

Richard J. Foster

#43. Intellectually and compassionately explaining the reason freedom works is required for credibility.

Ron Paul

#44. When we know ourselves to be connected to all others, acting compassionately is simply the natural thing to do.

Rachel Naomi Remen

#45. Action for Happiness encourages each of us to live more compassionately and put the happiness of others at the centre of our lives. This is the path to lasting peace and happiness

Dalai Lama